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impimpi

impimpi noun: a police informer.

Noun

impimpi (plural impimpis or impimpi)

  1. (South Africa) A police informer.
    • Within some communities, vigilante justice was used to identify, punish, and kill political sell-outs, known as impimpis.2005, Ksenija Bilbija, The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule, page 20
    • They're almost certainly impimpis, bastards who betrayed and murdered comrades.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 20

Forms of impimpi

pluralimpimpis
pluralimpimpi

Questions about impimpi

What does impimpi mean?
Impimpi means a police informer.
What part of speech is impimpi?
Impimpi is a noun.
What is the plural of impimpi?
The plural of impimpi is impimpis.

Words near impimpi in the dictionary

  1. impignorated
  2. impignorates
  3. impignorating
  4. impignoration
  5. impignorations
  6. impimpi
  7. imping
  8. impinge
  9. impinged
  10. impingement
  11. impingement black

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